RE-IMAGINING SEATTLE STREETS

Creating “green street edges” was the challenge presented by Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), with a long connective arterial in the Magnolia neighborhood as our testing ground.

The project included understanding and communicating the local watershed and neighborhood context, and then characterizing the various typical street conditions. UW landscape architecture and planning students developed prototypical proposals for treatment of the street and parking strips, addressing: pedestrian and bicycle transportation, rainwater harvesting, stormwater detention and treatment, urban forestry, community art, markers and gathering spaces, habitat features and local ecologies.